Tim McIlveen

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“A Cautionary Tale” by Tim McIlveen

Submitted to Contest #228

        Here waits a six-year-old boy. Oliver sits in his living room cross-legged on the carpet in front of the “brand new” coffee table his father has brought home from his latest storage auction. His father paces, nervous, by the door. His mother glances out the window during commercial breaks. It is early afternoon and Oliver hasn’t eaten since the morning, his stomach growls. His mother tells him he’ll have to wait until after, that he burps after eating and that would be off-putting during the in...

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